US20120083380A1 - Multi-mode drive system for transaxle applications - Google Patents
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- both the engine and the transmission assembly are typically transversely oriented in the vehicle.
- a transaxle combines the functionality of the transmission, a front differential and a front drive axle into one integrated assembly.
- the transaxle is modified to incorporate a power take-off unit (PTU), for example, a hypoid gear arrangement driven simultaneously with the front differential, to feed power via a longitudinally-oriented propshaft to a rear differential which, in turn, powers the rear axle.
- PTU power take-off unit
- the front axle assembly or “front drive unit” further incorporates reduction gearing in the form of a planetary gear set disposed upstream of both the front differential and the hypoid gear set.
- the reduction gear set is controlled by a sliding reduction hub to provide, as an input to both the front differential and the PTU's hypoid gear, a selected one of a normal or “high” range, and a “low” range characterized by a speed reduction and attendant increase in provided torque.
- the reduction hub defines a “neutral” condition in which both the front differential and the PTU's hypoid gear/propshaft are decoupled from the reduction gear set and, hence, from the engine and transmission output.
- hypoid gearset forming the transaxle's PTU, the propshaft, and such additional components including any associated clutch and the corresponding gearset of the rear drive assembly must be appropriately sized to accommodate the higher operating torques generated when the front axle's planetary gear set is placed in “low” range.
- an all-wheel drive system for a vehicle includes a first drive unit having a first housing, a first input shaft, and a first planetary gearset having a first ring gear grounded to the first housing, a first sun gear permanently coupled for rotation with the first input shaft, and a set of first planet gears supported by a first planetary carrier.
- the first drive unit also includes a first differential, and a first clutch for selectively coupling the first differential for rotation with one of the first sun gear and the first planetary carrier.
- the all-wheel drive system further includes a second drive unit having a second housing, a second input shaft, and a second planetary gearset having a second ring gear grounded to the second housing, a second sun gear permanently coupled for rotation with the second input shaft, and a set of second planet gears supported by a second planetary carrier.
- the second drive unit also includes a second differential, and a second clutch for selectively coupling the second differential for rotation with one of the second sun gear and the second planetary carrier.
- the all-wheel drive system further includes a power take-off unit with a third clutch selectively coupling the second input shaft of the second drive unit to the first input shaft of the first drive unit.
- the first clutch is further adapted to selectively decouple the first differential from both the first sun gear and the first planetary carrier.
- the second clutch is further adapted to selectively decouple the second differential from both the second sun gear and the second planetary carrier.
- the invention advantageously provides for the selective driving of either one, or both, of the axles while further allowing the simultaneous disconnect of each axle to facilitate towing of the vehicle without damage to driveline components. While the invention contemplates use of any suitable clutch, in a preferred embodiment, the first and second clutches are each three-position dog clutches.
- the first and second planetary gearsets preferably achieve a reduction ratio of between about 2.5:1 to about 4.5:1 when the first and second clutches respectively couple the first and second differentials to the respective carriers of the first and second planetary gearsets.
- one or both of the planetary gearsets preferably achieve a reduction ratio of between about 1.25:1 to about 1.5:1 when its respective differential is coupled to its planetary carrier.
- the first input shaft is driven by a final spool drive of a transaxle rotatable about a first axis
- the power take-off unit includes a further including a jack shaft rotatable about a second axis, the second axis being disposed at a nominal height in the vehicle lower than that of the first axis.
- FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an exemplary multi-mode drive system for a vehicle equipped with a transaxle;
- FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of the transaxle of FIG. 1 showing a first reduction gear set located in the torque flowpath downstream of the hypoid gearset forming the transaxle's PTU and upstream of the front axle assembly's floating front differential; and
- FIG. 3 is a partial sectional view of the rear axle of FIG. 1 , downstream of the propshaft and clutch, showing the rear differential as selectively driven by a second reduction gearset located in the rear axle assembly.
- an exemplary multi-mode drive system 10 for a vehicle equipped with a transversely-mounted engine 12 includes a transaxle 14 having a power transfer unit or power take-off unit (“PTU 16 ”) through which power is fed to a front axle assembly or front drive unit (FDU 18 ′′) to drive the vehicle's front wheels 20 .
- the PTU 16 also selectively feeds power through to a rear drive unit (“RDU 22 ”) through an electrically-controlled clutch 24 via a generally-longitudinally-extending propshaft 26 to thereby drive the vehicle's rear wheels 28 .
- the transaxle 14 includes an intermediate shaft 30 that receives power from the transaxle's final drive spool 32 .
- the intermediate shaft 30 is coupled for rotation with the sun gear 34 of a first planetary gearset 36 forming the FDU's reduction gear set.
- a first, three-position dog clutch 38 operated by a first linear actuator shown diagrammatically at 40 , is movable between a first position (toward the left in FIG. 2 ) in which the first clutch 38 couples a nested output shaft 42 to the planetary carrier to thereby achieve a predetermined speed reduction/torque multiplication.
- the first clutch 38 is also movable to a second, intermediate position (as illustrated in FIG.
- first clutch 38 does not couple the intermediate shaft 30 to the output shaft 42 to thereby achieve a “neutral” condition or disconnected front axle.
- the first clutch 38 is also movable to a third position (toward the right in FIG. 2 ) in which the first clutch 38 rotationally couples the output shaft 42 directly to the intermediate shaft 30 .
- the output shaft 42 is, in turn, rotationally coupled to the outer case of the FDU's floating front differential 44 which is supported within the transaxle's final drive spool 32 .
- the FDU's intermediate shaft 30 is also selectively coupled to a first gear 46 forming part of the exemplary drive system's PTU 16 by a second, two-position clutch 48 operated by a suitable second linear actuator indicated schematically at 50 .
- the first gear 46 mates with a second gear 52 to drive a jack shaft 54 whose rotational axis 56 is slightly lower than the rotational axis 58 of the intermediate shaft 30 , to improve the compactness of the resulting PTU 16 .
- a first hypoid gear 60 on the jack shaft 54 drives a second hypoid gear 62 which, in turn, drives the vehicle's propshaft (shown diagrammatically in FIG. 1 ).
- the exemplary system's RDU 22 includes a second hypoid gearset 64 whose gears are preferably similar to, but nonetheless intentionally slightly mismatched from, the PTU's hypoid gears 60 , 62 .
- the second hypoid gearset 64 drives an outer shaft 66 that is itself coupled for rotation with the sun gear 68 of a second planetary gearset 70 forming the RDU's reduction gear set.
- a third, three-position dog clutch 72 similar in construction to the transaxle's first clutch 38 and operated by a third linear actuator shown diagrammatically at 74 , is similarly movable to a first position (toward the left in FIG.
- the third clutch 72 rotationally couples the outer shaft 66 directly to a nested inner shaft 76 .
- the third clutch 72 is also movable to a second, intermediate position (as illustrated in FIG. 3 ) in which the third clutch 72 does not couple the outer shaft 66 to the inner shaft 76 to thereby achieve a “neutral” condition or disconnected rear axle.
- the third clutch 72 is also movable to a third position (toward the right in FIG. 3 ) in which the third clutch 72 couples the inner shaft 76 to the carrier of the second planetary gear set 70 , to thereby achieve a predetermined speed reduction/torque multiplication.
- the inner shaft 76 is, in turn, rotationally coupled to the outer case of the RDU's floating differential 78 . It will be appreciated that the invention contemplates use of a limited-slip differential in place of the open differential 78 illustrated in FIG. 3 .
- the two-position clutch 48 incorporates a synchronizer friction cone by which to bring the downstream driveline up to speed to allow engagement of the RDU's dog clutch 72 .
- the FDU's reduction gearing 36 is advantageously disposed within the same housing 80 as the PTU's jack shaft 54 and hypoid gearset 60 , 62 ; thus, the invention contemplates the characterization that the PTU 16 itself includes reduction gearing, provided that the reduction gearing is “downstream” of the hypoid gearset 60 , 62 , and upstream of the front axle's differential 44 .
- the transaxle 14 and RDU 22 are preferably designed for easy manufacture, with myriad components such as the respective reduction gearsets and dog clutch actuators preferably being common to both units.
- both the PTU 16 and the RDU 22 utilize a common right-angle hypoid gear design, while the transaxle 14 and the RDU 22 advantageously utilize the same planetary gearset and dog clutch design.
- the shift actuation for the reduction gearsets of the exemplary drive system's transaxle 14 and RDU 22 are likewise preferably identical, as is the disconnect actuation for the PTU's hypoid gear set 60 , 62 .
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- This application is claims benefit of provisional application No. 61/267,184 filed Jul. 23, 2010, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- In a conventional front-wheel-drive vehicle, both the engine and the transmission assembly are typically transversely oriented in the vehicle. A transaxle combines the functionality of the transmission, a front differential and a front drive axle into one integrated assembly.
- Where all-wheel drive (AWD) functionality is desired in a vehicle equipped with a transaxle, the transaxle is modified to incorporate a power take-off unit (PTU), for example, a hypoid gear arrangement driven simultaneously with the front differential, to feed power via a longitudinally-oriented propshaft to a rear differential which, in turn, powers the rear axle. In our U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2008/0300101, we disclose a first vehicle drive system in which the PTU's hypoid ring gear is operatively coupled for rotation with the front differential's outer case, and in which the front axle assembly or “front drive unit” further incorporates reduction gearing in the form of a planetary gear set disposed upstream of both the front differential and the hypoid gear set. The reduction gear set is controlled by a sliding reduction hub to provide, as an input to both the front differential and the PTU's hypoid gear, a selected one of a normal or “high” range, and a “low” range characterized by a speed reduction and attendant increase in provided torque. In a third position, the reduction hub defines a “neutral” condition in which both the front differential and the PTU's hypoid gear/propshaft are decoupled from the reduction gear set and, hence, from the engine and transmission output.
- In this manner, the front and rear axles of the preferred AWD system disclosed in our U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US2008/0300101 are identically driven in each of the drive system's three operating modes—“high” range, “low” range, and “neutral”—as determined by the selected position of the reduction hub controlling the front axle assembly's reduction gearing, with the available “low” range providing improved “off-road” performance improving vehicle, and with the available “neutral” condition facilitating vehicle towing. However, it will be appreciated that, with this design, the hypoid gearset forming the transaxle's PTU, the propshaft, and such additional components including any associated clutch and the corresponding gearset of the rear drive assembly, must be appropriately sized to accommodate the higher operating torques generated when the front axle's planetary gear set is placed in “low” range.
- It is an object of the invention to provide a vehicle equipped with a transaxle and PTU with additional operating modes, for example, to improve fuel efficiency and reduce perceived vehicle NVH when only a single driven axle is deemed necessary or desired, by disconnecting a selected one of the front and rear axles.
- It is another object of the invention to disconnect power to the PTU's hypoid gearing, the propshaft and the rear differential in a transaxle-equipped AWD vehicle when powering only the front axle, to thereby avoid the unnecessary power loss and component wear associated with the idling of such driveline components.
- It is a further object of the invention to include selectable reduction gearing in the rear drive unit of a transaxle-equipped AWD vehicle, to thereby permit the PTU, propshaft and related components to be sized to accommodate the relatively lower operating torques associated with normal or “high” range operation, notwithstanding driving both front and rear axles in the “low” range.
- In accordance with an aspect of the invention, an all-wheel drive system for a vehicle includes a first drive unit having a first housing, a first input shaft, and a first planetary gearset having a first ring gear grounded to the first housing, a first sun gear permanently coupled for rotation with the first input shaft, and a set of first planet gears supported by a first planetary carrier. The first drive unit also includes a first differential, and a first clutch for selectively coupling the first differential for rotation with one of the first sun gear and the first planetary carrier. The all-wheel drive system further includes a second drive unit having a second housing, a second input shaft, and a second planetary gearset having a second ring gear grounded to the second housing, a second sun gear permanently coupled for rotation with the second input shaft, and a set of second planet gears supported by a second planetary carrier. The second drive unit also includes a second differential, and a second clutch for selectively coupling the second differential for rotation with one of the second sun gear and the second planetary carrier. The all-wheel drive system further includes a power take-off unit with a third clutch selectively coupling the second input shaft of the second drive unit to the first input shaft of the first drive unit.
- In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the first clutch is further adapted to selectively decouple the first differential from both the first sun gear and the first planetary carrier. Similarly, in a preferred embodiment, the second clutch is further adapted to selectively decouple the second differential from both the second sun gear and the second planetary carrier. In this manner, the invention advantageously provides for the selective driving of either one, or both, of the axles while further allowing the simultaneous disconnect of each axle to facilitate towing of the vehicle without damage to driveline components. While the invention contemplates use of any suitable clutch, in a preferred embodiment, the first and second clutches are each three-position dog clutches.
- In accordance with another aspect of the invention, to provide each driven differential (axle) with a “low” range, the first and second planetary gearsets preferably achieve a reduction ratio of between about 2.5:1 to about 4.5:1 when the first and second clutches respectively couple the first and second differentials to the respective carriers of the first and second planetary gearsets. Alternatively, in the event that a more moderate torque multiplication is desired, for example, in order to provide the vehicle with greater towing capacity, one or both of the planetary gearsets preferably achieve a reduction ratio of between about 1.25:1 to about 1.5:1 when its respective differential is coupled to its planetary carrier.
- In accordance with yet a further aspect of the invention, wherein the first input shaft is driven by a final spool drive of a transaxle rotatable about a first axis, and wherein the power take-off unit includes a further including a jack shaft rotatable about a second axis, the second axis being disposed at a nominal height in the vehicle lower than that of the first axis.
- Other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be readily appreciated upon a review of the subsequent description of the preferred embodiment and the appended claims, taken in conjunction with the accompanying Drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an exemplary multi-mode drive system for a vehicle equipped with a transaxle; -
FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of the transaxle ofFIG. 1 showing a first reduction gear set located in the torque flowpath downstream of the hypoid gearset forming the transaxle's PTU and upstream of the front axle assembly's floating front differential; and -
FIG. 3 is a partial sectional view of the rear axle ofFIG. 1 , downstream of the propshaft and clutch, showing the rear differential as selectively driven by a second reduction gearset located in the rear axle assembly. - Referring to
FIG. 1 , an exemplarymulti-mode drive system 10 for a vehicle equipped with a transversely-mountedengine 12 includes atransaxle 14 having a power transfer unit or power take-off unit (“PTU 16”) through which power is fed to a front axle assembly or front drive unit (FDU 18″) to drive the vehicle'sfront wheels 20. ThePTU 16 also selectively feeds power through to a rear drive unit (“RDU 22”) through an electrically-controlledclutch 24 via a generally-longitudinally-extendingpropshaft 26 to thereby drive the vehicle'srear wheels 28. - More specifically, and referring to
FIG. 2 , thetransaxle 14 includes anintermediate shaft 30 that receives power from the transaxle'sfinal drive spool 32. Theintermediate shaft 30 is coupled for rotation with thesun gear 34 of a firstplanetary gearset 36 forming the FDU's reduction gear set. A first, three-position dog clutch 38, operated by a first linear actuator shown diagrammatically at 40, is movable between a first position (toward the left inFIG. 2 ) in which thefirst clutch 38 couples anested output shaft 42 to the planetary carrier to thereby achieve a predetermined speed reduction/torque multiplication. Thefirst clutch 38 is also movable to a second, intermediate position (as illustrated inFIG. 2 ) in which thefirst clutch 38 does not couple theintermediate shaft 30 to theoutput shaft 42 to thereby achieve a “neutral” condition or disconnected front axle. Thefirst clutch 38 is also movable to a third position (toward the right inFIG. 2 ) in which thefirst clutch 38 rotationally couples theoutput shaft 42 directly to theintermediate shaft 30. Theoutput shaft 42 is, in turn, rotationally coupled to the outer case of the FDU's floatingfront differential 44 which is supported within the transaxle'sfinal drive spool 32. - The availability of these three front axle operating modes allows the vehicle to retain its nominal transmission ratios, for example, for normal vehicle operation on paved roads, thus increasing fuel economy, while also providing the ability to select low-range gearing for off-road driving applications (for example, when the first
planetary gearset 36 achieves a reduction ratio of between about 2.5:1 to about 4.5:1) or alternatively to improve trailer-towing capacity (for example, when the firstplanetary gearset 36 achieves a reduction ratio of perhaps about 1.25:1 to about 1.5:1). - Referring again to
FIG. 2 , the FDU'sintermediate shaft 30 is also selectively coupled to afirst gear 46 forming part of the exemplary drive system'sPTU 16 by a second, two-position clutch 48 operated by a suitable second linear actuator indicated schematically at 50. When coupled for rotation with theintermediate shaft 30 by operation of thesecond clutch 48, thefirst gear 46 mates with asecond gear 52 to drive ajack shaft 54 whoserotational axis 56 is slightly lower than therotational axis 58 of theintermediate shaft 30, to improve the compactness of the resultingPTU 16. Afirst hypoid gear 60 on thejack shaft 54 drives asecond hypoid gear 62 which, in turn, drives the vehicle's propshaft (shown diagrammatically inFIG. 1 ). - Referring to
FIG. 3 , the exemplary system'sRDU 22 includes asecond hypoid gearset 64 whose gears are preferably similar to, but nonetheless intentionally slightly mismatched from, the PTU'shypoid gears second hypoid gearset 64 drives an outer shaft 66 that is itself coupled for rotation with thesun gear 68 of a secondplanetary gearset 70 forming the RDU's reduction gear set. A third, three-position dog clutch 72, similar in construction to the transaxle'sfirst clutch 38 and operated by a third linear actuator shown diagrammatically at 74, is similarly movable to a first position (toward the left inFIG. 3 ) in which thethird clutch 72 rotationally couples the outer shaft 66 directly to a nestedinner shaft 76. Thethird clutch 72 is also movable to a second, intermediate position (as illustrated inFIG. 3 ) in which thethird clutch 72 does not couple the outer shaft 66 to theinner shaft 76 to thereby achieve a “neutral” condition or disconnected rear axle. Thethird clutch 72 is also movable to a third position (toward the right inFIG. 3 ) in which thethird clutch 72 couples theinner shaft 76 to the carrier of the second planetary gear set 70, to thereby achieve a predetermined speed reduction/torque multiplication. Theinner shaft 76 is, in turn, rotationally coupled to the outer case of the RDU's floatingdifferential 78. It will be appreciated that the invention contemplates use of a limited-slip differential in place of theopen differential 78 illustrated inFIG. 3 . - Referring again to
FIG. 2 , while the invention contemplates use of any suitable two-position clutch 48 for selectively driving thefirst gear 46 under the control of thesecond actuator 50, in theexemplary drive system 10, the two-position clutch 48 incorporates a synchronizer friction cone by which to bring the downstream driveline up to speed to allow engagement of the RDU'sdog clutch 72. - It will be noted that, in the
exemplary drive system 10, the FDU'sreduction gearing 36 is advantageously disposed within thesame housing 80 as the PTU'sjack shaft 54 andhypoid gearset PTU 16 itself includes reduction gearing, provided that the reduction gearing is “downstream” of thehypoid gearset differential 44. - From the foregoing, it will be appreciated that the use of reduction gearing in both the front and rear axles in accordance with the invention advantageously provides a lower driveline loading, with the PTU gearing, propshaft, electric-controlled clutch, and the RDU gears all subjected to significantly lower torque than when fed torque directly from a planetary reduction gear set disposed “upstream” of the PTU.
- In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the
transaxle 14 andRDU 22 are preferably designed for easy manufacture, with myriad components such as the respective reduction gearsets and dog clutch actuators preferably being common to both units. Thus, in theexemplary drive system 10, both thePTU 16 and theRDU 22 utilize a common right-angle hypoid gear design, while thetransaxle 14 and theRDU 22 advantageously utilize the same planetary gearset and dog clutch design. In this manner, it will be appreciated that the shift actuation for the reduction gearsets of the exemplary drive system'stransaxle 14 andRDU 22 are likewise preferably identical, as is the disconnect actuation for the PTU's hypoid gear set 60,62. - While the above description constitutes the preferred embodiment, it will be appreciated that the invention is susceptible to modification, variation and change without departing from the proper scope and fair meaning of the subjoined claims.
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